ISBN:
0585031576
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9780585031576
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (xix, 704 p.)
,
ill.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Serie:
Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 27
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Szreter, Simon Fertility, class, and gender in Britain, 1860-1940
DDC:
304.60941
Schlagwort(e):
Fertility, Human History
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Fertility, Human History
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20th century
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Great Britain
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Social classes History
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Social classes History
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20th century
;
Great Britain
;
Sex role History
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19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Sex role History
;
20th century
;
Great Britain
;
Fertility, Human History 19th century
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Fertility, Human History 20th century
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Social classes History 19th century
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Social classes History 20th century
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Sex role History 19th century
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Sex role History 20th century
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Birth Rate history
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Demography
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Family Planning Services history
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Population Dynamics
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Social Class
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Population
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Sex role
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Social classes
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography
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Fertility, Human
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History
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Great Britain Population
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History
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19th century
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Great Britain Population
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History
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20th century
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Great Britain Population 20th century
;
History
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Great Britain Population 19th century
;
History
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United Kingdom
;
Great Britain History
;
19th century
;
Population
;
Great Britain History
;
20th century
;
Population
;
Great Britain
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Part I. Historiographical Introduction: A Genealogy of Approaches: 1. The construction and the study of the fertility decline in Britain: social science and history -- Part II. The Professional Model of Social Classes: An Intellectual History: 2. Social classification of occupations and the GRO in the nineteenth century -- 3. Social classification and nineteenth-century naturalistic social science -- 4. The emergence of a social explanation of class inequalities among environmentalists, 1901-1904 -- 5. The emergence of the professional model as the official system of social classification, 1905-1928 -- Part III. A New Analysis of the 1911 Census Occupational Fertility Data: 6. A test of the coherence of the professional model of class-differential fertility decline -- 7. Multiple fertility declines in Britain: occupational variation in completed fertility and nuptiality -- 8. How was fertility controlled? The spacing versus stopping debate and the culture of abstinence -- Part IV. Conceptions and Refutations: 9. A general approach to fertility change and the history of falling fertilities in England and Wales -- 10. Social class, communities, gender and nationalism in the study of fertility change.
Kurzfassung:
This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, feminist, and labour history with intellectual, social, and political history. It exposes the conceptual and statistical inadequacies of the orthodox picture of a national, unitary class-differential fertility decline, and presents an entirely new analysis of the famous 1911 fertility census of England and Wales. Surprising and important findings emerge concerning the principal methods of birth control: births were spaced from early on in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was a far more significant practice than previously imagined. The author presents a new general approach to the study of fertility change, raising central issues concerning the relationship between history and social science
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 636-674) and index. - Description based on print version record
